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Physical Review Letters View Email Online   Volume 131, Issue 11 Week Ending 15 September 2023 On the Cover Two isomers of the smallest very long-lived or stable all-carbon molecular dianion ${\mathrm{C}}_7^{2-}$ From the article Stability and Cooling of the C72− Dianion P. K. Najeeb, M. H. Stockett, E. K. Anderson, M. K. Kristiansson, P. Reinhed, A. Simonsson, S. Rosén, R. D. Thomas, K. C. Chartkunchand, H. Gnaser, R. Golser, D. Hanstorp, Å. Larson, H. Cederquist, H. T. Schmidt, and H. Zettergren Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 113003 (2023)     View Issue   Advertisement Upcoming Physical Review Journal Club session September 21 | 11:00 a.m. ET: Florian Bernlochner (CERN) and colleagues on the Physical Review Letters paper: "First Direct Observation of Collider Neutrinos with FASER at the LHC" Registration is free and a video recording will be provided to all registrants.     Advertisement New Webinar Series for Industry, Undergrads APS has launched two new webinar series. The new Activating Industry Careers series will feature Dr. Peter S. Fisk with "Show Me the Money! Compensation in the Physics Industry" on September 19. The PULSE series for undergraduate students will launch with "Possible Research Areas" on September 27. Register now.     Advertisement Physical Review B​ is looking for a new part-time (remote) Associate Editor PRB seeks an Associate Editor to manage the peer review process of assigned manuscripts by determining whether to send a manuscript out for external review, choosing appropriate reviewers, and making decisions on rejection or acceptance. More information.     Not an APS member? Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists.   HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Determination of the Thermomigration Force on Adatoms F. Leroy, A. El Barraj, F. Cheynis, P. Müller, and S. Curiotto Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116202 (2023) – Published 15 September 2023 Focus:Measuring Thermal Migration The slow drift of microscale features on a surface reveals the force driving atoms from the hot to the cold side of the material.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Direct Observation of Topological Phonons in Graphene Jiade Li, Jiangxu Li, Jilin Tang, Zhiyu Tao, Siwei Xue, Jiaxi Liu, Hailin Peng, Xing-Qiu Chen, Jiandong Guo, and Xuetao Zhu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116602 (2023) – Published 14 September 2023 Synopsis:Graphene Has Topological Phonons New experiments reveal graphene's exotic phonon spectrum with unprecedented detail and completeness.     Editors' Suggestion Evidence for Suppression of Structure Growth in the Concordance Cosmological Model Nhat-Minh Nguyen, Dragan Huterer, and Yuewei Wen Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111001 (2023) – Published 11 September 2023 A joint analysis of data from the CMB, weak lensing, peculiar velocities, and galaxy clustering, shows that an extension of the concordance cosmological model which includes the suppression of the growth of cosmic structure can alleviate two widely discussed cosmological tensions.     Editors' Suggestion Prevailing Charge Order in Overdoped La2−xSrxCuO4 beyond the Superconducting Dome Qizhi Li, Hsiao-Yu Huang, Tianshuang Ren, Eugen Weschke, Lele Ju, Changwei Zou, Shilong Zhang, Qingzheng Qiu, Jiarui Liu, Shuhan Ding, Amol Singh, Oleksandr Prokhnenko, Di-Jing Huang, Ilya Esterlis, Yao Wang, Yanwu Xie, and Yingying Peng Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116002 (2023) – Published 14 September 2023 Resonant x-ray scattering measurements reveal the existence of charge ordering in the high-temperature cuprate superconductor, La2−xSrxCuO4, well beyond the expected levels of doping concentrations.     Editors' Suggestion Paramagnetic Singularities of the Orbital Magnetism in Graphene with a Moiré Potential J. Vallejo Bustamante, R. Ribeiro-Palau, C. Fermon, M. Pannetier-Lecoeur, K. Watanabe, T. Tanigushi, R. Deblock, S. Guéron, M. Ferrier, J. N. Fuchs, G. Montambaux, F. Piéchon, and H. Bouchiat Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116201 (2023) – Published 11 September 2023 Magnetization measurements on graphene/hBN samples in a wide range of chemical potential reveal paramagnetism at saddle points of the moiré band structure.     Editors' Suggestion Floquet Engineering of Black Phosphorus upon Below-Gap Pumping Shaohua Zhou, Changhua Bao, Benshu Fan, Fei Wang, Haoyuan Zhong, Hongyun Zhang, Peizhe Tang, Wenhui Duan, and Shuyun Zhou Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116401 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023 Light-induced band engineering in black phosphorus by pumping below the band gap is experimentally demonstrated, which might extend Floquet engineering to more quantum materials.     Editors' Suggestion Enhancement of Second-Order Non-Hermitian Skin Effect by Magnetic Fields Chang-An Li, Björn Trauzettel, Titus Neupert, and Song-Bo Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116601 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023 The second-order non-Hermitian skin effect is robust and can even be enhanced by magnetic fields, which is in contrast to the first-order non-Hermitian skin effect.     Editors' Suggestion Experimental Observation of Critical Scaling in Magnetic Dynamic Phase Transitions M. Quintana and A. Berger Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116701 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023 Magneto-optical experiments on ultrathin uniaxial cobalt films reveal (for the first time) critical behavior in such systems, and also show indications of dimensional crossover, with the films exhibiting 2D dynamical and 3D thermodynamic behavior.     Editors' Suggestion Chemotactic Motility-Induced Phase Separation Hongbo Zhao, Andrej Košmrlj, and Sujit S. Datta Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 118301 (2023) – Published 12 September 2023 Chemotaxis and motility-induced phase separation compete against each other in systems of active particles.     LETTERS Quantum Information, Science, and Technology Unlimited One-Way Steering Pavel Sekatski, Florian Giraud, Roope Uola, and Nicolas Brunner Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110201 (2023) – Published 11 September 2023   Constructing Local Models for General Measurements on Bosonic Gaussian States Michael G. Jabbour and Jonatan Bohr Brask Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110202 (2023) – Published 12 September 2023   Embedding Semiclassical Periodic Orbits into Chaotic Many-Body Hamiltonians Andrew Hallam, Jean-Yves Desaules, and Zlatko Papić Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110401 (2023) – Published 14 September 2023   Benchmarking Quantum Simulators Using Ergodic Quantum Dynamics Daniel K. Mark, Joonhee Choi, Adam L. Shaw, Manuel Endres, and Soonwon Choi Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110601 (2023) – Published 12 September 2023   Measurement-Based Deterministic Imaginary Time Evolution Yuping Mao, Manish Chaudhary, Manikandan Kondappan, Junheng Shi, Ebubechukwu O. Ilo-Okeke, Valentin Ivannikov, and Tim Byrnes Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110602 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023   Single-Qubit Error Mitigation by Simulating Non-Markovian Dynamics Mirko Rossini, Dominik Maile, Joachim Ankerhold, and Brecht I. C. Donvil Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110603 (2023) – Published 15 September 2023   Proof-of-Principle Demonstration of Fully Passive Quantum Key Distribution Chengqiu Hu, Wenyuan Wang, Kai-Sum Chan, Zhenghan Yuan, and Hoi-Kwong Lo Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110801 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023   Experimental Demonstration of Fully Passive Quantum Key Distribution Feng-Yu Lu, Ze-Hao Wang, Víctor Zapatero, Jia-Lin Chen, Shuang Wang, Zhen-Qiang Yin, Marcos Curty, De-Yong He, Rong Wang, Wei Chen, Guan-Jie Fan-Yuan, Guang-Can Guo, and Zheng-Fu Han Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 110802 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023   Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Gravitation Editors' Suggestion Evidence for Suppression of Structure Growth in the Concordance Cosmological Model Nhat-Minh Nguyen, Dragan Huterer, and Yuewei Wen Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111001 (2023) – Published 11 September 2023 A joint analysis of data from the CMB, weak lensing, peculiar velocities, and galaxy clustering, shows that an extension of the concordance cosmological model which includes the suppression of the growth of cosmic structure can alleviate two widely discussed cosmological tensions.     Ruling Out New Physics at Low Redshift as a Solution to the H0 Tension Ryan E. Keeley and Arman Shafieloo Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111002 (2023) – Published 15 September 2023   Starburst Galactic Nuclei as Light Dark Matter Laboratories Antonio Ambrosone, Marco Chianese, Damiano F. G. Fiorillo, Antonio Marinelli, and Gennaro Miele Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111003 (2023) – Published 15 September 2023   Novel Constraints on Axions Produced in Pulsar Polar-Cap Cascades Dion Noordhuis, Anirudh Prabhu, Samuel J. Witte, Alexander Y. Chen, Fábio Cruz, and Christoph Weniger Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111004 (2023) – Published 15 September 2023   Large Scale Limit of the Observed Galaxy Power Spectrum Matteo Foglieni, Mattia Pantiri, Enea Di Dio, and Emanuele Castorina Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111201 (2023) – Published 15 September 2023   From Black Hole Spectral Instability to Stable Observables Théo Torres Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111401 (2023) – Published 11 September 2023   Asymptotic Symmetry Algebra of Einstein Gravity and Lorentz Generators Oscar Fuentealba, Marc Henneaux, and Cédric Troessaert Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111402 (2023) – Published 14 September 2023   Self-Consistent Modeling of Gravitational Theories beyond General Relativity Ramiro Cayuso, Pau Figueras, Tiago França, and Luis Lehner Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111403 (2023) – Published 15 September 2023   Particles and Fields Q-Ball Superradiance Paul M. Saffin, Qi-Xin Xie, and Shuang-Yong Zhou Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111601 (2023) – Published 11 September 2023   Energy Extraction from Q-balls and Other Fundamental Solitons Vitor Cardoso, Rodrigo Vicente, and Zhen Zhong Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111602 (2023) – Published 11 September 2023   Generalized Symmetries for Generalized Gravitons Valentin Benedetti, Pablo Bueno, and Javier M. Magan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111603 (2023) – Published 15 September 2023   Probing the Dark Sector with Nuclear Transition Photons Bhaskar Dutta, Wei-Chih Huang, and Jayden L. Newstead Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111801 (2023) – Published 12 September 2023   Measurement of the Ratios of Branching Fractions R(D*) and R(D0) R. Aaij et al. (LHCb Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111802 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023   Measurement of CP Violation in B0→KS0π0 Decays at Belle II I. Adachi et al. (Belle II Collaboration) Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 111803 (2023) – Published 14 September 2023   Nuclear Physics Study of the 22Mg Waiting Point Relevant for X-Ray Burst Nucleosynthesis via the 22Mg(α,p)25Al Reaction H. Jayatissa, M. L. Avila, K. E. Rehm, P. Mohr, Z. Meisel, J. Chen, C. R. Hoffman, J. Liang, C. Müller-Gatermann, D. Neto, W. J. Ong, A. Psaltis, D. Santiago-Gonzalez, T. L. Tang, C. Ugalde, and G. Wilson Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 112701 (2023) – Published 15 September 2023   Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Effects of Quantum Fluctuations on the Low-Energy Collective Modes of Two-Dimensional Superfluid Fermi Gases from the BCS to the Bose Limit Senne Van Loon and C. A. R. Sá de Melo Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 113001 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023   Low-Velocity-Favored Transition Radiation Jialin Chen, Ruoxi Chen, Fuyang Tay, Zheng Gong, Hao Hu, Yi Yang, Xinyan Zhang, Chan Wang, Ido Kaminer, Hongsheng Chen, Baile Zhang, and Xiao Lin Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 113002 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023   Stability and Cooling of the C72− Dianion P. K. Najeeb, M. H. Stockett, E. K. Anderson, M. K. Kristiansson, P. Reinhed, A. Simonsson, S. Rosén, R. D. Thomas, K. C. Chartkunchand, H. Gnaser, R. Golser, D. Hanstorp, Å. Larson, H. Cederquist, H. T. Schmidt, and H. Zettergren Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 113003 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023   Variation of the Quadrupole Hyperfine Structure and Nuclear Radius due to an Interaction with Scalar and Axion Dark Matter V. V. Flambaum and A. J. Mansour Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 113004 (2023) – Published 14 September 2023   Observation of a Superradiant Phase Transition with Emergent Cat States Ri-Hua Zheng, Wen Ning, Ye-Hong Chen, Jia-Hao Lü, Li-Tuo Shen, Kai Xu, Yu-Ran Zhang, Da Xu, Hekang Li, Yan Xia, Fan Wu, Zhen-Biao Yang, Adam Miranowicz, Neill Lambert, Dongning Zheng, Heng Fan, Franco Nori, and Shi-Biao Zheng Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 113601 (2023) – Published 11 September 2023   Nonreciprocal Dicke Model Ezequiel I. Rodríguez Chiacchio, Andreas Nunnenkamp, and Matteo Brunelli Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 113602 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023   Physics of Fluids, Earth & Planetary Science, and Climate Confined Phase Singularities Reveal the Spin-to-Orbital Angular Momentum Conversion of Sound Waves Ludovic Alhaïtz, Thomas Brunet, Christophe Aristégui, Olivier Poncelet, and Diego Baresch Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 114001 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023   Kolmogorov Turbulence Coexists with Pseudo-Turbulence in Buoyancy-Driven Bubbly Flows Vikash Pandey, Dhrubaditya Mitra, and Prasad Perlekar Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 114002 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023   Shape-Morphing Dynamics of Soft Compliant Membranes for Drag and Turbulence Modulation Varghese Mathai, Asimanshu Das, Dante L. Naylor, and Kenneth S. Breuer Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 114003 (2023) – Published 15 September 2023   Plasma and Solar Physics, Accelerators and Beams Fast Ion Isotropization by Current Sheet Scattering in Magnetic Reconnection Jets Louis Richard, Yuri V. Khotyaintsev, Daniel B. Graham, Andris Vaivads, Daniel J. Gershman, and Christopher T. Russell Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 115201 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023   Condensed Matter and Materials Current-Voltage Characteristics of the Normal Metal-Insulator-PT-Symmetric Non-Hermitian Superconductor Junction as a Probe of Non-Hermitian Formalisms Viktoriia Kornich Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116001 (2023) – Published 14 September 2023   Editors' Suggestion Prevailing Charge Order in Overdoped La2−xSrxCuO4 beyond the Superconducting Dome Qizhi Li, Hsiao-Yu Huang, Tianshuang Ren, Eugen Weschke, Lele Ju, Changwei Zou, Shilong Zhang, Qingzheng Qiu, Jiarui Liu, Shuhan Ding, Amol Singh, Oleksandr Prokhnenko, Di-Jing Huang, Ilya Esterlis, Yao Wang, Yanwu Xie, and Yingying Peng Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116002 (2023) – Published 14 September 2023 Resonant x-ray scattering measurements reveal the existence of charge ordering in the high-temperature cuprate superconductor, La2−xSrxCuO4, well beyond the expected levels of doping concentrations.     Editors' Suggestion Paramagnetic Singularities of the Orbital Magnetism in Graphene with a Moiré Potential J. Vallejo Bustamante, R. Ribeiro-Palau, C. Fermon, M. Pannetier-Lecoeur, K. Watanabe, T. Tanigushi, R. Deblock, S. Guéron, M. Ferrier, J. N. Fuchs, G. Montambaux, F. Piéchon, and H. Bouchiat Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116201 (2023) – Published 11 September 2023 Magnetization measurements on graphene/hBN samples in a wide range of chemical potential reveal paramagnetism at saddle points of the moiré band structure.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Determination of the Thermomigration Force on Adatoms F. Leroy, A. El Barraj, F. Cheynis, P. Müller, and S. Curiotto Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116202 (2023) – Published 15 September 2023 Focus:Measuring Thermal Migration The slow drift of microscale features on a surface reveals the force driving atoms from the hot to the cold side of the material.     Editors' Suggestion Floquet Engineering of Black Phosphorus upon Below-Gap Pumping Shaohua Zhou, Changhua Bao, Benshu Fan, Fei Wang, Haoyuan Zhong, Hongyun Zhang, Peizhe Tang, Wenhui Duan, and Shuyun Zhou Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116401 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023 Light-induced band engineering in black phosphorus by pumping below the band gap is experimentally demonstrated, which might extend Floquet engineering to more quantum materials.     Probing Hidden Mott Gap and Incommensurate Charge Modulation on the Polar Surfaces of PdCrO2 Chenhaoping Wen, Tian Qin, Xuefeng Zhang, Mingxin Zhang, Weixiong Hu, Shiwei Shen, Zhongzheng Yang, Yanpeng Qi, Gang Li, and Shichao Yan Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116501 (2023) – Published 15 September 2023   Editors' Suggestion Enhancement of Second-Order Non-Hermitian Skin Effect by Magnetic Fields Chang-An Li, Björn Trauzettel, Titus Neupert, and Song-Bo Zhang Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116601 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023 The second-order non-Hermitian skin effect is robust and can even be enhanced by magnetic fields, which is in contrast to the first-order non-Hermitian skin effect.     Featured in Physics Editors' Suggestion Direct Observation of Topological Phonons in Graphene Jiade Li, Jiangxu Li, Jilin Tang, Zhiyu Tao, Siwei Xue, Jiaxi Liu, Hailin Peng, Xing-Qiu Chen, Jiandong Guo, and Xuetao Zhu Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116602 (2023) – Published 14 September 2023 Synopsis:Graphene Has Topological Phonons New experiments reveal graphene's exotic phonon spectrum with unprecedented detail and completeness.     Topological Circular Dichroism in Chiral Multifold Semimetals Junyeong Ahn and Barun Ghosh Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116603 (2023) – Published 14 September 2023   Editors' Suggestion Experimental Observation of Critical Scaling in Magnetic Dynamic Phase Transitions M. Quintana and A. Berger Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116701 (2023) – Published 13 September 2023 Magneto-optical experiments on ultrathin uniaxial cobalt films reveal (for the first time) critical behavior in such systems, and also show indications of dimensional crossover, with the films exhibiting 2D dynamical and 3D thermodynamic behavior.     Plaquette Singlet Transition, Magnetic Barocaloric Effect, and Spin Supersolidity in the Shastry-Sutherland Model Junsen Wang, Han Li, Ning Xi, Yuan Gao, Qing-Bo Yan, Wei Li, and Gang Su Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116702 (2023) – Published 14 September 2023   Tuning the Multiferroic Properties of BiFeO3 under Uniaxial Strain P. Hemme, J-C. Philippe, A. Medeiros, A Alekhin, S. Houver, Y. Gallais, A. Sacuto, A. Forget, D. Colson, S. Mantri, B. Xu, L. Bellaiche, and M. Cazayous Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116801 (2023) – Published 15 September 2023   Control of the Bright-Dark Exciton Splitting Using the Lamb Shift in a Two-Dimensional Semiconductor L. Ren (任磊), C. Robert, M. Glazov, M. Semina, T. Amand, L. Lombez, D. Lagarde, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, and X. Marie Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116901 (2023) – Published 11 September 2023   Optically Active Spin Defects in Few-Layer Thick Hexagonal Boron Nitride A. Durand, T. Clua-Provost, F. Fabre, P. Kumar, J. Li, J. H. Edgar, P. Udvarhelyi, A. Gali, X. Marie, C. Robert, J. M. Gérard, B. Gil, G. Cassabois, and V. Jacques Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 116902 (2023) – Published 14 September 2023   Dynamical Polarization of the Fermion Parity in a Nanowire Josephson Junction J. J. Wesdorp, L. Grünhaupt, A. Vaartjes, M. Pita-Vidal, A. Bargerbos, L. J. Splitthoff, P. Krogstrup, B. van Heck, and G. de Lange Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 117001 (2023) – Published 15 September 2023   Statistical Physics; Classical, Nonlinear, and Complex Systems Dynamics of Nucleation in Solids: A Self-Consistent Phase Field Approach D. Simeone, O. Tissot, P. Garcia, and L. Luneville Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 117101 (2023) – Published 14 September 2023   Polymers, Chemical Physics, Soft Matter, and Biological Physics Solvent Effects on Structure and Screening in Confined Electrolytes Jie Yang, Svyatoslav Kondrat, Cheng Lian, Honglai Liu, Alexander Schlaich, and Christian Holm Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 118201 (2023) – Published 11 September 2023   Evaporation-Driven Cellular Patterns in Confined Hyperelastic Hydrogels Baudouin Saintyves, Romain Pic, L. Mahadevan, and Irmgard Bischofberger Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 118202 (2023) – Published 15 September 2023   Editors' Suggestion Chemotactic Motility-Induced Phase Separation Hongbo Zhao, Andrej Košmrlj, and Sujit S. Datta Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 118301 (2023) – Published 12 September 2023 Chemotaxis and motility-induced phase separation compete against each other in systems of active particles.     Control of Active Brownian Particles: An Exact Solution Marco Baldovin, David Guéry-Odelin, and Emmanuel Trizac Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 118302 (2023) – Published 14 September 2023   Dimension of Activity in Random Neural Networks David G. Clark, L. F. Abbott, and Ashok Litwin-Kumar Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 118401 (2023) – Published 11 September 2023   COMMENTS Comment on "Fickian Non-Gaussian Diffusion in Glass-Forming Liquids" L. Berthier, E. Flenner, and G. Szamel Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 119801 (2023) – Published 14 September 2023   Rusciano et al. Reply: Francesco Rusciano, Raffaele Pastore, and Francesco Greco Phys. Rev. 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